Walking benchmark
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:19 pm
I just had to post a quick note, I found this funny and a compelling image of my fitness/urban rangering issues in my lifetime.
When I was a kid, one of the many kid-crises we had to deal with was how far away the bus stop was from our house. We had to walk SO FAR! My sister and I complained about it relentlessly, until finally our mother called in and had the school board alter the bus route do drop us off closer to our house.
So this inconceivably huge distance has been a benchmark in my mind for a "good walk." But today we have wonderful tools like Gmaps Pedometer at our disposal. I use it all the time to measure the walks I take, which are typically between 1 and 4 miles, with 2-3 being the top of the bellcurve. So of course, I had to measure this distance of this old, harrowing, flat-surface walk through suburbia that endlessly tormented my childhood.
The distance?
0.2 miles. Not joking. Unreal how much our perspectives shift....
When I was a kid, one of the many kid-crises we had to deal with was how far away the bus stop was from our house. We had to walk SO FAR! My sister and I complained about it relentlessly, until finally our mother called in and had the school board alter the bus route do drop us off closer to our house.
So this inconceivably huge distance has been a benchmark in my mind for a "good walk." But today we have wonderful tools like Gmaps Pedometer at our disposal. I use it all the time to measure the walks I take, which are typically between 1 and 4 miles, with 2-3 being the top of the bellcurve. So of course, I had to measure this distance of this old, harrowing, flat-surface walk through suburbia that endlessly tormented my childhood.
The distance?
0.2 miles. Not joking. Unreal how much our perspectives shift....
